If you're going to waste time on Reddit, you might as well do it in style. Reddit News has always been reliable, but now it's pretty stylish too with a big update to v7. What's included? Material stuff. You like that, right?

Here's the full changelog from the new version.

Every screen beautifully redesigned

Delightful animations throughout

Vastly improved comment navigation

Comprehensive moderator features

Support for Gfycat and imgurs gifv format

Brand new icon

SSL support for added security

Even more customizable, including several new font styles

And much much more

Okay, let's skip the part where we all point out the parts of the app that are not sufficiently material. The app includes some nifty animations, floating action buttons, and navigation menus. So it's a nice improvement no matter what you want to call it. Comments and links now load at the same time and you can easily swipe between them. The whole app also looks a bit cleaner overall, and you can pick your theme. There are some pics of the old version below for comparison.

I don't want to download every other app that comes my way and turn the "My Apps" section into a dustbin that I'll need to keep cleaning every few weeks. What seems trivial to you, might not be trivial to others.

JustUninstall

Ya know, apps aren't like physical garbage... You don't have to keep unneeded apps around for weeks while you wait for the Google garbage men to come around and take them away.

I'm not talking about uninstalling the app from the device. I'm talking about "My Apps" section of Play Store - https://play.google.com/apps . Every app you ever install gets saved here and I don't want this to become a garbage can, full of apps that I will never use after testing.

JustUninstall

In that case, you do know you can go the "All" tab of the "My Apps" section in the Google play app, and click the X that appears in the top corner of uninstalled free apps?

"All" tab doesn't list apps in alphabetical order. I'll have to keep scrolling and have to keep an eye out for the apps to appear in the list. I don't want to keep doing that every few weeks. Maybe you've got lots of free time in your hand and it's trivial for you. It's not so trivial for me and several others. That's why people were upset when Google removed multi-app removal option from "All" tab in play store app.

This is a community of Android users and asking "which app is better" is a totally valid question. "Install and try yourself" or "Google it" are not helpful.

mathieulefrancois

I've been using this since the beta and love it. I used to be torn between Reddit is Fun and Reddit News, but with this update I switched to Reddit News

bort118

Reddit is fun has been my go-to, but this one has such pretty animations! I'm making the switch.

Eduardo Pratti

And now every single Reddit app besides BaconReader has the same. Fucking. Icon. Great.

(I know they're different, but it's mind boggling how no one could come up with a better design than this)

Im pretty sure, they will get their own spot later
Im foreseeing something better out of Flow..

NaNNy`

As a Reddit Sync Pro user I must admit I'm a bit jealous

Beautiful UI!

AdmiralAckbar89

I agree except I can't one swipe a post away to hide it. You have to swipe to the left only, then hit 'hide'. I would like to see a swipe to hide or an 'auto mark as read' when you scroll past items so you can really make use of the 'hide all read' button.

manfulloftrouble

That's the thing I can't get past with News. Every actionable thing you want to do with a post (up/downvote, go to comments, hide) requires you first to swipe the post over to see all of the options, whereas with Sync, they are all right there in the card and require just one tap.

wicketr

The big orange button on the bottom main listing will hide all read posts at once. A refresh of the homescreen will bring them back if necessary.

Robert William Wernert IV

This is something that Google doesn't actually want iirc, they want the actions to be taken on content (beyond dismissal) visible or hidden by a long press, not a swipe.

Between this and Sync there is an almost perfect Reddit app but it still eludes us. Both have clearly different strengths so there is no distinct "winner"—in regard to fundamental navigation and layout decisions Sync is doing a better job (cards view and font usage is prettier, subreddits in the drawer is a better solution than News's top overflow button choice, replying to comments and using internal browser is much less confusing...) while News have some critical extra features Sync doesn't have (like searching inside threads, AMA mode, volume key navigation...) So I'm using both and I'm unhappy. I wish Flow wasn't abandoned, it had such a great start.

mustafa

Sync is a lot easier to navigate but news looks better

Adamberts

I purchased with coins on Amazon. Wonder how long I'll be waiting for the update haha

Ben F

He said about a week on reddit, assuming it's approved.

Adamberts

Thanks

Derek L.

I think this is the best looking Reddit app out there. Sure, there are some weird things about the navigation, but when you get used to it, it starts to make sense. I love what DBrady did, and I think he's made one heck of an app.

Samuel Hart

It's actually quite a pretty app. Miles better than the web interface! Shame it's reddit really, I'd kill for more apps this well designed.

UNKNOWN

Why does the nexus 5 have HTC sense navigation bar?

Russell Brown

Crap, and I only recently paid for BaconReader too. Going to have to give this a try now, since it looks so nice.

I had just installed Reddit Now a few days ago and now I don't know which one I prefer.

Cristian Borsa

I am a Material whore.

tehdef

Then you won't like this app. It's like.... "half assed material".

Arch9

This makes me switch from reddit sync

Nathan J

Looks like I'm the only BaconReader user here. One thing I really like about Bacon is that it can hide the score of each item. Only on the topic list, not the comments. I rarely vote (only if something is very good or very bad) so I don't like to see the score. I don't want to be influenced.

Oh man, I gave Reddit News a scathing 1-star review 2.5 years ago. Including a couple totally unfair points. I won't go into it—suffice it to say, this developer has earned a second chance with this update, at least from the pictures.

Sync looks nice too (Cards > Material in my humble opinion) but it's the only Reddit app priced 25% higher than the others. That's not nice! If it's that much better, it's only 50¢, but it's got to be that much better first.

Just tried News a bit. Oh, I like this...

tehdef

Thanks for adding "material inspired". Most definitely what I would consider pretty shitty implementation of Material.

Know what I want? I want somebody to go to the Material Design Guidelines and just MAKE APPS LOOK LIKE THAT.

Why? Because it's gorgeous. Reddit Material? Yes please. Some developer do this. I will give you 5$.